The Routledge International Handbook of Radical Ethical Social Work

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-03022-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

This volume offers an initial articulation of radical, ethical social work as a socially transformative response to societal divisions and polarization.

The contributors conceptualize this interstitial space of the radical and ethical as acutely sensitive to power relations, systemic harms and diverse epistemologies and ontologies while being relational, contextual, compassionate and informed by oppositional consciousness and revolutionary hope.  The 30 chapters are spread across three sections: Theorizing Radical, Ethical Social Work; Academic Contexts; and Practical Contexts. In disrupting assumed positions and orthodoxies and making visible tensions and contradictions in contemporary social work, this book suggests greater complexity, nuance and possibility, whilst promoting novel, unique social work responses and dialogue.

Presenting a new politics of social work, this Handbook will motivate social work scholars, educators, practitioners, students and policy makers towards complex, critical, relevant, transformative, socially just, decolonised, ethical social work engagement.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmid, Jeanette

Morgenshtern, Marina

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Theorizing Radical, Ethical Social Work  1.Introduction: The Ethical Radical Space in Social Work: A Kaleidoscope 2.Overcoming Modernity’s Moral Cacophony: Realising Social Work’s Radical, Ethical Potential through Revolutionary Aristotelianism 3.Pluriversality as a Lens for Expanding Radical, Ethical Social Work 4.Advancing the Radical and Ethical Core of Social Work: More Inclusive and Participatory Approaches to Theory Production 5.Centring Resistant Margins: The Courageous Critical and Radical Ethical Core 6.Re-Stor(y)ing Ethics Through Kinship, Relational Accountability and Radical Revolutionary Love  Section 2: Academic Contexts  7.Theory Base Guiding Canadian Social Work Educators: Foregrounding Criticality 8.Undoing the Essentialized White ‘Body’ in Anti-Oppressive Social Work: A Radical Moral Imperative 9.Using a Radical, Ethical Social Work Lens to Understanding the Tensions in Student-Educator Relationships from the Educators’ Perspective 10.A Process of Radical and Ethical Collaboration on Social Work Course Redesign: Voices of South African Educators 11.Radical, Ethical Social Work in Carceral and Fugitive Spaces: Oral Presentation  Section 3: Practical Contexts  12.Pedagogical Relationships and Recognition Theory as an Expression of Radical, Ethical Social Work 13.Applying a Radical Ethical Core to Co-Design Research with Currently and Fromerly Incarcerated Women 14.The ‘Least Harmful Path’: Radical, Ethical Social Work in Practice Within and Around Systems of Social Control 15.The Radical Ethical Core of Social Work – ‘If You Want to Change Outcomes for Children, Change the Way Decisions Are Made’ – Family Group Conferences and Restorative Approaches Redefining Relationships in Child Protection Practice 16.The Necropolitics of Covid-19 and Pandemic Social Work: Unsettling the Politics of Care 17.Compassionate Radical Ethical Social Work: Understanding Toxic Harm in South Korea as Structural-Ecosocial Conditions of Health 18.Integrating Western and Traditional Notions of Health for Rural South African Women Dealing with Cervical Cancer: Is it Possible and Desirable? 19.Understanding Palliative Care Through a Radical, Ethical Social Work Lens 20.Communities of Recovery and Their Development: Practicing the Radical and its Ethical Core in Social Work 21.Radical, Ethical Gerontological Social Work 22.Powerful? Powerless? Both?: The Complex Experiences of the Jewish Immigrant Men from the Former Soviet Union in Toronto 23.Challenging Heteronormativity Through Groupwork with Black-Identifying Men: A Radical, Ethical Social Work Approach 24.More Than What Meets the Eye: A Radical, Ethical Overview of Gender and Sexuality within South African Social Work 25.Structural Inequalities Facing Women in Nigeria and South Africa: A Radical Ethical Social Work Perspective 26.Participation and ‘Oppurtunity Justice’ in the Social Sphere/Space: Social Work Between Participation and Paternalism: Who Has a Say, Who is Heard in Neighbourhood and Community Development? 27.Radical and Ethical Social Work Responses to Xenophobic Violence in South Africa 28.The Future of Social Work in Times of Disasters: Towards a Multispecies Ethics 29.Untangling the Knot: Dilemmas in the Professionalization of Social Work Towards a Radical, Ethical Space 30.Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Kim Schmidt, a dedicated social worker with over twenty years of experience in child protection, is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Development at the University of Fort Hare.

Marina Morgenshtern is an associate professor and dean, Trent University Durham-GTA. She is a former chair of the Department of Social Work at Trent University.